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Ghost of Memory
by Melissa R. Mendelson
I was once your memory.
Beautiful as the sun rises and sets.
It made you smile.
It made you love me,
and then doubt rolled in.
I was locked behind cruel bars,
drowned down by your misery,
but I won’t fade.
I remain,
an angry ghost.
pacing around my prison,
planning escape,
and over time,
these bars were broken.
It will be night
when I slip out
into your sweetest dreams,
and you will rest,
putting your other memories to bed.
I will slip across your mind,
let you smile one last time,
and then I will make you scream.
Fiction © Copyright Melissa R. Mendelson
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
More from Melissa R. Mendelson:
Name’s Keeper
I got a one-way ticket out of hell. All I need to do is drive across country with a body in the trunk and run miscellaneous errands, but a lot of those errands come with a heavy price. And if I lose the body in the trunk, then I have to go back, and I’ll be damned if I return down there. I will fight to stay here, even if there is no rest for those wicked.
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